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AUSTIN, Texas — A University of Texas law-school student says a gun made with 3-D-printed
technology was successfully fired this weekend.

Cody Wilson, the 25-year-old director and co-founder of Defense Distributed, the online
collective managing the Wiki Weapon Project, said that successful tests of the gun, largely made of
plastic, were well-documented.

“It behaved exactly as we expected it would,” Wilson said of the 3-D-printed handgun. He said he
was “positive and optimistic” after the tests. The weapon was fired successfully from an aluminum
frame on Friday and by hand on Saturday, he said.

The technology works by building up layer upon layer of material — typically plastic — to build
complex solid objects.

For legal experts and law-enforcement officials, the endeavor falls under a new frontier of the
law.

Wilson previously said it was unclear whether his effort was legal or illegal.